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Yeah, this is a really dense issue that depends upon the reader having been following Uncanny X-Force up until now, and as such a few pages aren't going to really make much sense.

Short version: back in the AoA, their version of Wolverine has become the new host body for Apocalypse. He's besieging the final holdout of humanity with a bunch of superhuman shock troops, there are almost no X-Men left alive, and Magneto and Rogue go down fighting to try to buy time for one last Hail Mary pass.

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Hang on, so this is a Point One, but isn't even vaguely intended as a jumping on point? *boggle* That's even weirder than having what would otherwise be sensible standalone jumping-on points positioned during story arcs (as Thor/JiM did twice last year).

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AoA Magneto is considerably less powerful due to injuries he's suffered in the past, IIRC, and to be absolutely fair, he does try to crush Logan's skeleton in on itself right before Logan kills him. Even the full-power Magneto from 616 had to really go out of his way to affect adamantium.

Rogue's power drain has a tendency to hilariously backlash when she uses it on certain people, and not everyone immediately gets stunned or goes unconscious. The last time she tried draining Juggernaut's powers, for example, he kept pounding on her the entire time and was never knocked out. There's precedent for somebody on Apocalypse's level being able to resist it, even if he didn't come prepared with some manner of Celestial gadget.

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I'm guessing she didn't get down to Wolverine's power because Apocalypse's was in the way/overlaying it. Like she was trying to reach the ground, but she's on an ocean so there's too much sea water that she had to get her hand through first.

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Didn't Jubilee pretty much disappear after the original main series (despite still being alive) in AoA? I wonder if she'll be in this, or if she's been killed off-page. Besides her the only AoA character left that I care/wonder about is Rhane.

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He was concentrating really hard though on Apocalypse for a pretty long while who was beating him up to accomplish that. I think it's due to the fact that AoA at this point is old and like you said he's lost half his powers already. But also take into consideration that he just lost the love of his life and he expects to die from this fight.